"Yes; I've been with her nearly all the time."
"It was my fault the raiders come out to get 'Lishy, that night."
"I knew it when I heard how you saved him from them. Oh, don't hate me for makin' you suffer so! It seemed like fun then, but I've been paid back for it all."
He felt dazed. Armindy free, Armindy faithful, and loving, and humbly entreating him not to hate her! Life thrilled afresh through him.
"Who did 'Lishy Cole marry?" he inquired at last.
"How you keep thinkin' o' him!"
"I can afford to now."
"He married Sary Ann Wood."
They were standing by the laurel thicket. She saw that his eyes were fixed on the flowers, and turned quickly away to take up the pail of water.
"I ain't danced the hoe-down since that night."